Race Color Quotes

#1. Part of what my music represents is to stand up and be the voice of those who feel like they are not heard and want to be treated with respect regardless of race, color, orientation - android, cyborg, whatever.

Janelle Monae

#2. Peace is not just the absence of conflict; peace is the creation of an environment where all can flourish regardless of race, color, creed, religion, gender, class, caste or any other social markers of difference.

Nelson Mandela

#3. [On gay ban in the military:] Heroism, I believe, is a trait that does not know race, color, creed, sex, or sexual orientation.

Dianne Feinstein

#4. Anybody who is really walking with the Lord is embracing the foibles and the beauties and the differences of humanity, regardless of race, color, creed, economic stature and sexual proclivity, whatever. You embrace the beauty of humanity and not be exacting and belittling about the differences.

Marcia Gay Harden

#5. Khrushchev murders people without regard to race, color, or creed, and therefore whatever he is guilty of, he is not guilty of discrimination?

William F. Buckley Jr.

#6. My mom, God love her, she was one of those Bible people. She thought it was wrong to bother anybody, regardless of race, color or religion. It just wasn't a Christian thing to look down on anybody, and that's what she taught us.

Levon Helm

#7. It was strange the paths the human heart chose to take and the attachments it made along the way. The surest sign of the altruistic nature of the organ is its ability to ignore race, color, creed, and gender and just blindly love with all its might - one of the most irrefutable forces on earth. They

Craig Johnson

#8. There shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin.

Harry S. Truman

#9. The will of the entire people is the true basis of republican government, and a free expression ... by the public vote of all citizens, without distinctions of race, color, occupation, or sex, is the only means by which that will can be ascertained.

Victoria Woodhull

#10. We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production.

Dorothy Day

#11. Regardless of race, color or creed; despite spiritual belief and political views, there is an infinite amount of strength within us all. Find that courage and be the one you want the world to see.

Sheila Renee Parker

#12. To be free you must afford freedom to your neighbor, regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin, and that sometimes, for some, is very difficult.

Helen Gahagan Douglas

#13. It's almost a responsibility for all the people of the United Kingdom, regardless of race, color or creed, and an understanding that you have an individual connection with each and every one.

Prince Andrew

#14. Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet unvexxed by war, untroubled by hunger or fear, undivided by senseless distinctions of race, color or theory.

Stephen Vincent Benet

#15. You can't discriminate against someone because of their race, color, or religion, but you can discriminate against someone because of their sexual preference, I find it to be abhorrent.

Rib Hillis

#16. I can't understand
why dark northern soldiers
and light ones
are seperated into different brigades.
The dead are all buried together
in hasty mass graves,
bones touching.

Margarita Engle

#17. We know You love us. We love You, too. I mean, six, seven thousand years from now ... won't make no difference, will it? Everybody gonna be so mixed up by then that far in the future that they all gonna be the same color by then, ain't they?

Larry Brown

#18. If I describe a person's physical appearance in my writing, which I often do, especially in fiction, I never say someone is "black" or "white." I may describe the color of their skin - black eyes, beige skin, blue eyes, dark skin, etc. But I'm not talking about race.

Jamaica Kincaid

#19. Our goals can only be achieved with a society that respects and equally protects the rights of every human being, old and young, rich and poor, regardless of gender, color, race, or creed. We must reject the initiation of violence by individuals or government as morally repugnant.

Ron Paul

#20. Skin color doesn't make you different,' Melody said. 'We're all the same on the inside.' 'The only people who ever say that,' Raymon replied, 'are white.

Jodi Picoult

#21. Heart and character have no gender, religion nor color.

Charles Spencer King

#22. There was no single gay point of view. Like skin color or gender or any of those arbitrary, sometimes artificial, difference sexual orientation didn't make us all the same. But it did affect us. It had to.

Kelly J. Cogswell

#23. Freedom of religion is one of the greatest gifts of God to man, without distinction of race and color. He is the author and lord of conscience, and no power on earth has a right to stand between God and the conscience.

Philip Schaff

#24. Prodigals are not limited in gender, race, age or color. They do have one thing in common: They have left home, and they are missed. Ruth Bell Graham

James Banks

#25. It is perfectly logical and proper to recognize differences between races and colors and creeds - as long as we don't classify them as being better or worse.

Arlene Francis

#26. I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope - the door of opportunity - is to be shut upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the grounds of race or color. Such an attitude would, according to my convictions, be fundamentally wrong.

Theodore Roosevelt

#27. To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

William Faulkner

#28. To the extent residency preferences prevent families and senior citizens from purchasing homes because of race, ethnicity or color, the preferences violate federal law and cannot be tolerated.

Loretta Lynch

#29. There are only two races (and they are not distinguished by color): those who are free and those who are not.

Gerry Spence

#30. No circumstance in the natural world is more inexplicable than the diversity of form and color in the human race.

Mary Somerville

#31. The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a race and color problem that is still far from solution here, or anywhere. In America particularly, the grapes of wrath have not yet yielded all their bitter vintage.

Samuel Eliot Morison

#32. We cannot keep turning our backs on gay and lesbian Americans. I have fought too hard and too long against discrimination based on race and color not to stand up against discrimination based on sexual orientation.

John E. Lewis

#33. People of color, particularly African Americans, feel the stigma more keenly. In a race-conscious society, some don't want to be perceived as having yet another deficit.

Bebe Moore Campbell

#34. Money is color-blind, race-blind, sex-blind, degree-blind, and couldn't care less who brought you up or in what circumstances.

Felix Dennis

#35. I'm African-American by my culture, not by my color. Race does not exist.

Terry Crews

#36. Their analysis clearly revealed the existence of a color line that effectively blocked black occupational, residential, and social mobility. They demonstrated that any assumption about urban blacks duplicating the immigrant experience had to confront the issue of race.

William Julius Wilson

#37. When I hear Obama speak he just seems really sincere and he just seems like somebody who actually has his heart and his motivation in the right place. Forget about color or race or gender or whatever, he's got his heart in the right place.

Adam Yauch

#38. I am quite sure ... I have no race prejudice, and I think I have no color prejudices, nor caste prejudices. Indeed, I know it. I can stand any society. All I care to know is that a man is a human being - this is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

Mark Twain

#39. It doesn't matter what blood or race or creed or color. Love is love and it breaks all boundaries and you just see it right away.

Michael Jackson

#40. If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.

Laura Schlessinger

#41. They would never know how lucky they had been. For a lifetime, mankind had achieved as much happiness as any race can ever know. It had been the Golden Age. But gold was also the color of sunset, of autumn: and only Karellen's ears could catch the first wailings of the winter storms.

Arthur C. Clarke

#42. The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever.

Simone Weil

#43. Education, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition.

George Washington Carver

#44. As I've been telling your, son, you get nowhere looking at clothes and the color of the skin to judge a man. It won't tell you nothing about what's inside. That's where a fellow's mettle is, and that's what counts.

Richard Puz

#45. My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity.

Robert Griffin III

#46. For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.

Yves Klein

#47. Boy, you'll have a fair trial. Race, creed or color, justice will be done in my courtroom.

Laurence Stallings

#48. Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

Thomas Sowell

#49. I never really had to put much thought into my race, and neither did anybody else. I knew I was black. I knew there was a history that accompanied my skin color, and my parents taught me to be proud of it. End of story.

Issa Rae

#50. There is only one race on this planet: The human race. We are all the same color-blood red, it pumps through all our veins. As soon as we all figure out the power of loving each other the quicker the world will become the place it should be

DeiAmor Verus

#51. A true writer should be able to write about any color. It's the story they tell that should affect people, not the race.

Dee Dee M. Scott

#52. The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#53. What is stronger that color and sweeter that honey is the love of the human race

Thabiso Monkoe

#54. All men are NOT created equal before God; the facts of heaven and hell, election and reprobation make clear that they are not equal. Moreover, an employer has aproperty rights to prefer whom he will in terms of "color" creed, race or national origin.

R.J. Rushdoony

#55. I've often been a little concerned by people who say they are color-blind, people who claim, in some ways, not to be aware of race, and I hope that those who will be looking for a vision of the future will be a little more honest, and say race actually does matter.

Desmond Tutu

#56. Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don't care who reads them.

Augusta Scattergood

#57. I think we should all come together, and that race and color or social demographics really don't matter.

Joanna Noelle Levesque

#58. It's time we become comfortable with the uncomfortable conversations about race ... Instead of being color blind, we need to be color brave.

Mellody Hobson

#59. Racial dialogues are microcosms of race relations in the United States; reenact the biases, prejudices, and stereotypes of the wider society; invalidate and punish dissenting voices; and force compliance on groups of color.

Derald Wing Sue

#60. You shouldn't take pride in your natural talents any more than you should take pride in your sex, your race or color of your hair

Marcus Buckingham

#61. I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: 'Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only courted the low ambition to have it said that he striven to ameliorate the condition of the poor, the lowly, the
downtrodden of every race and language and color.'

Thaddeus Stevens

#62. The Negro has been here in America since 1619, a total of 344 years. He is not going anywhere else; this country is his home. He wants to do his part to help make his city, state, and nation a better place for everyone, regardless of color and race.

Medgar Evers

#63. Ignoring all prejudices of caste, creed, class, color, sex, or race, a swami follows the precepts of human brotherhood. His goal is absolute unity with Spirit.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#64. The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, or bulk, or color, or wealth, or poverty of individuals. Water will seek its level; nature will have free course; and heart will answer to heart.

William Lloyd Garrison

#65. I just can't conceive of how a person could hate another because of skin color. I love every race on the planet earth.

Michael Jackson

#66. It is not the color of the skin that makes the man or the woman, but the principle formed in the soul. Brilliant wit will shine, come from whence it will; and genius and talent will not hide the brightness of its lustre.

Maria W. Stewart

#67. In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.

Ernie Harwell

#68. They can talk shit about each other behind the others' backs, but when it comes down to it, money is the one true race and everyone down here is the color of greenbacks and as tall as mountains.

Richard Kadrey

#69. There's no race, no religion, no class system, no color - nothing - no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone else. We're all deserving of love.

Sandra Bullock

#70. Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff.

James Lankford

#71. Redheads are a variant that survived, a color minority, though not a skin color precisely, not a race, but still subject to identification by the wary eyes and wagging tongues of the majority.

Marion Roach

#72. If we conservatives "of color" refuse to promote the welfare state, unfettered abortion, affirmative action, and massive immigration, we are guilty of "selling out.

Michelle Malkin

#73. We understand 'Roots,' and that experience was mind-boggling, and it changed the way society viewed race relations. It was incredibly important. With 'Roots,' I was just as proud as anybody else that people of color were getting their stories told.

Esai Morales

#74. It was around this time that I started thinking about how skin color defined class. The cowboy movies that fueled the goodness of 'White' reinforced attaching 'darkness' to a class. I finally took notice that the crayon color called 'flesh' did not match mine.

Luis Quiros

#75. A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.

Sally Kirkland

#76. Like, you can't tell a certain race, like, 'You're supposed to act this way, and you're not supposed to act this way because of what color you are,' like, that's just holding everybody back, you know what I'm saying?

Kreayshawn

#77. Every citizen, regardless of his race, creed, or color, is entitled to equal justice.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#78. Color can be measured in the depth of ones' skin, however character is measured by the content of ones' heart.

Mark W. Boyer

#79. When a rainbow spreads across the sky it is reminding the world that beauty comes in all colors.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#80. We must focus on people as people, regardless of race, creed, color or gender.

Judge Mills Lane

#81. Representation is very important to everyone, but especially to girls like me, and people like me, whether it be because of my body, because of my race, because of my skin color, because of my awkwardness or where I come from.

Gabourey Sidibe

#82. We see through the eyes of children that they're not talking about race the way we grown folks are. They're not talking about color or how much melanin is in someone's skin.

John Boyega

#83. Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.

Thurgood Marshall

#84. If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.

George Aiken

#85. The moderns, then, after they have abolished slavery, have three prejudices to contend against, which are less easy to attack and far less easy to conquer than the mere fact of servitude: the prejudice of the master, the prejudice of the race, and the prejudice of color.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#86. Minority conservatives hold a special place of gutter contempt in the minds of unhinged liberals, who can never accept the radical concept of a person of color rejecting identity politics.

Michelle Malkin

#87. When white and black and brown and every other color decide they're going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.

Barry Goldwater

#88. Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.

James Baldwin

#89. My color is my joy and not my burden...

Bebe Moore Campbell

#90. Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.

Joe Garagiola

#91. I wanted to separate color from race. Distinguishing color - light, black, in-between - as the marker for race is really an error.

Toni Morrison

#92. People are like M&Ms. They come in a variety of colors, they're hard on the outside, and full of obscene yumminess on the inside.

Michael Makai

#93. I became a chameleon. My color didn't change, but I could change your perception of my color. If you spoke Zulu, I replied to you in Zulu. If you spoke to me in Tswana, I replied to you in Tswana. Maybe I didn't look like you, but if I spoke like you, I was you.

Trevor Noah

#94. That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.

Hans Kung

#95. There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#96. That every man, no matter what his color or race or creed might be, and no matter what the crime that he is charged with, each man in those circumstances is entitled to the fairest treatment that anybody can possibly give him.

Gilbert King

#97. The mere state of being without funds is a neutral fact constitutionally an irrelevance, like race, creed, or color.

Robert H. Jackson

#98. You work through race, you don't deny race. It's the difference between being color-blind and love-struck. You see, if I love you, I don't need to eliminate your whiteness. If you love me, you don't need to eliminate my blackness. You embrace humanity.

Cornel West

#99. I don't look at people and see color and race. I see inside.

Jennifer Lopez

#100. Human race don't go extinct but only if we treat each other as a human regardless of gender, color, class, and ethnicity.

Mohith Agadi